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unusual facts about The Only Child



Claire Chitham

Having studied in New York and Los Angeles, Chitham has also appeared in a number of stage productions, including Rabbit, by Nina Raine; The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard; and The Only Child, by Simon Stone.


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An Seanphobal

Richard J. Daley was the only child of Michael and Lillian (Dunne) Daley, whose families had both arrived from An tSean Phobail area during the Great Famine (Ireland).

Ann Clare Brokaw

Ann Clare Brokaw (April 25, 1924 – January 11, 1944, Palo Alto, Calif.) was the only child of Clare Boothe Brokaw (later Clare Boothe Luce) and George Tuttle Brokaw.

Arthur MacArthur IV

Arthur MacArthur IV (born February 21, 1938, Manila, Philippines) is a concert pianist, writer and artist, the only child of United States Army General and Field Marshal Douglas MacArthur and grandchild of United States Army General Arthur MacArthur.

Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke

She was the only child of Sir Walter Palmer, 1st Baronet MP and his wife, Jean, Lady Palmer, and as wife of the Tuan Muda took the title of "Dayang Muda" and the style of "Her Highness".

Bill Berkson

Born in New York city on August 30, 1939, Bill Berkson grew up on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the only child of Seymour Berkson, general manager of International News Service and later publisher of the New York Journal American, and the fashion publicist Eleanor Lambert.

Cecil Chisholm

He was the only child of John Christie Chisholm, a solicitor and Provost of Dalkeith and Jean Anderson, the first woman Provost of Dalkeith.

Cyril Crowe

Crowe was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Crowe of Saltburn.

Édouard Dujardin

Édouard Émile Louis Dujardin was born in Saint-Gervais-la-Forêt, Loir-et-Cher, and was the only child of Alphonse Dujardin, a sea captain.

Elizabeth Sutherland, 24th Countess of Sutherland

She was born Elizabeth Millicent Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, the only child of Major Lord Alastair Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (1890–1921), a son of the 4th Duke of Sutherland, and his wife, the former Elizabeth Demarest (1892–1931), the former wife of John G. A. Leishman, Jr. and a daughter of Warren Gardner Demarest of New York City.

Frances Minto Elliot

Francis Elliot was born Frances Vickriss Dickinson at Farley Hill Court in the Berkshire village of Swallowfield on 6 March 1820, the only child of Charles Dickinson of Queen Charlton Manor, Somerset.

Gaius Bruttius Praesens

Praesens was the son and (as far as is known) the only child to Roman consul and senator Caius Bruttius Praesens Lucius Fulvius Rusticus and from his second marriage to rich Roman heiress Laberia Hostilia Crispina, daughter of the general and twice consul Manius Laberius Maximus.

Ian Fraser, Baron Fraser of Tullybelton

Ian Fraser was born in Glasgow on 3 February 1911, the only child of Alexander Reid Fraser and his wife Margaret Russell MacFarlane.

Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex, England, the only child of Benjamin D'Israeli (1730–1816), a Jewish merchant who had emigrated from Cento in Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825).

James Innes-Ker, 6th Duke of Roxburghe

He inherited his father's titles in 1823 and on 29 December 1836, he married Susanna Stephania Dalbiac, the only child of Sir Charles Dalbiac.

James Waddell Alexander II

He was the only child of the American portrait painter John White Alexander and Elizabeth Alexander.

Jane Martha St. John

Her brother Michael, 21 years her senior had married and her brother William, 18 years older than his sister, was continuing his education at Eton and at Edinburgh with his tutor Sydney Smith, leaving her as the only child at home.

John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl

The Duke was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, as the only child of Major George Murray (1884–1940) and Joan (d.2000), the daughter of William Edward Eastwood, of South Africa.

John Talbot, 10th Earl of Shrewsbury

He was the only child and son of John Talbot of Longford, Newport, Shropshire (died London, 1607 or c. 1607), and wife Eleanor Baskerville, daughter of Sir Thomas Baskerville of Wolvershill, Herefordshire, and of Brinsop, Herefordshire, and grandson of Sir John Talbot of Grafton and Catherine or Katharine Petre.

Ladislaus Löb

Löb was born in Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár), northern Transylvania, the only child of Izsó, a businessman, and Jolán (née Rosenberg), who died of tuberculosis in 1942.

Louis Napoleon George Filon

He born at Saint-Cloud, near Paris, the only child of Augustin Filon, the French littérateur who was appointed as the official tutor to the Prince Imperial.

Macario Sakay

According to General Leon Villafuerte, his, Carreon's and Sakay's forces planned to kidnap Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the only child of President Theodore Roosevelt with his first wife, while travelling on a train.

Margareta of Celje

She was the only child of Herman III, Count of Celje (b. 1380? - d. after falling from his horse, 30 July 1426), by his first wife, Elisabeth (b. 1377? - d. bef. 1423), daughter of Baron Johann II of Abensberg and widow of Ulrich II of Schauenburg.

Marie Elisabeth of Valois

Marie Elisabeth of France (27 October 1572 – 9 April 1578) was the only child of Charles IX of France and Elisabeth of Austria.

Marie, Countess of Eu

Marie of Lusignan or Marie I de Lusignan (born c. 1223 in Melle; died in Poitou, October 1, 1260; buried at the Abbey of Foucarmont), was the only child and daughter of Raoul II of Lusignan and his second wife, Yolande de Dreux.

Mark Elvin

Elvin, the only child of (Herbert) Lionel Elvin and Mona Bedortha Dutton, grew up in Cambridge; attended The Dragon School; and matriculated as an undergraduate at King's College, Cambridge.

Megan McNeil

The only child of Dave and Suzanne McNeil, she was diagnosed in 2006 with adrenalcortical carcinoma, a rare type of adrenal cancer when she was 16 years old.

Melissa Rivers

Rivers was born Melissa Warburg Rosenberg in Manhattan on January 20, 1968, the only child of Joan Rivers and Edgar Rosenberg.

Michael Ende

Ende was born November 12, 1929 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (Bavaria, Germany), the only child of the surrealist painter Edgar Ende and Luise Bartholomä Ende, a physiotherapist (Coby).

Murder of George Duncan

George Duncan was born on 20 July 1930 at Golders Green, London, the only child of New Zealand born parents Ronald Ogilvie Duncan (d.1952) and his second wife Hazel Kerr née Martell (d.1944).

Nicolas Adames

He was born in Troisvierges in 1813, the only child of the farmer Jean Adames and Marie Magdalena Wangen.

Paul Lacôme

Lacôme was born in Le Houga, Gers, in Gascony, the only child of an artistic and musical family.

Pearl Van Sciver

Pearl was born in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia in 1896, the only child of parents Arnold Aiman and Emma G. Rorer.

Philip Hagreen

Hagreen was the only child of Henry Hagreen, the drawing master at Wellington College, Berkshire.

Rudi Bass

Born in Vienna, Austria, Rudi (named Rudolf at birth) was the only child of Friedrich Bass and Auguste Erlich Bass.

Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland

Sarah Fane, Countess of Westmorland (née Sarah Anne Child; 28 August 1764 – 9 November 1793) was the only child of Robert Child, the owner of Osterley Park and principal shareholder in the banking firm Child & Co.

Stanton Davis Kirkham

He was born in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France, the only child of Major Murray S. Davis (Commander, 8th Calvalry, Troop A, Camp Winfield Scott, Nevada, 1867) and Julia Edith Kirkham Davis, daughter of Gen. Ralph Wilson Kirkham, Union Army general, who adopted Kirkham and brought him to the United States.

Stephen Reay

Reay was the only child of a Scottish clergyman, John Reay, and was born in Montrose, Angus, on 29 March 1782, which was Good Friday.

Tarsha Vega

Vega was born in The Bronx, New York, the only child of a single mother who worked for the New York City Department of Education.

Ted Vasin

Born the only child of an artist and a geologist in Moscow, Russia, Ted Vasin often attended the Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard where his grandfather Alexander Falkovsky was a costume and stage designer who created costumes for Oleg Popov, Yuri Nikulin and Karandash.

Thornhill Hall

In 1370, in the reign of Edward III, Elizabeth Thornhill, the only child of Simon Thornhill, married Sir Henry Savile.

Tim Elkington

Elkington was born in Edgbaston near Birmingham on 23 December 1920, the only child of Alan Durham Elkington and his wife Isabel Frances (née Griffin).

Toni Seven

Born June Elizabeth Millarde on July 6, 1922 in New York City, she was the only child of actress June Caprice and film director Harry F. Millarde.

Travis Jackson

He was the only child of William Jackson, a wholesale grocer, and his wife, Etta, who named their son after William B. Travis, a Lieutenant Colonel who died at the Battle of the Alamo.

Victoria Montesi

Montesi is the only child of Monsignor Vittorio Montesi; the Montesi line was long ago designated as the guardians of the Darkhold, a tome of ancient black magic which has the potential to summon the Elder God Chthon to wreak havoc upon the Earth, but Victoria, half-American, disbelieves her father's claims and takes up hospital work in Rome, where she lives with her lover, karate instructor Natasha "Nash" Salvato.

Vida Dutton Scudder

She was born in Madurai, India, in 1861, the only child of David Coit Scudder and Harriet Louise (Dutton) Scudder.

Walter Hungerford, 1st Baron Hungerford of Heytesbury

Walter Hungerford was born in 1503 at Heytesbury, Wiltshire, the only child of Sir Edward Hungerford (died 1522) of Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset, and his first wife, Jane Zouche, daughter of John, Lord Zouche of Harringworth (1459–1526).

Yolande of Dreux, Queen of Scotland

Her father was a patrilineal descendant of King Louis VI of France, her paternal grandmother Marie de Bourbon was a cousin of Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders, while her mother Beatrice was the only child of Count John I of Montfort-l'Amaury and his wife Jeanne, Dame de Chateaudun.